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| 7964545431 | Preconscious | The level of consciousness that is outside of awareness but contains feelings and memories that you can easily bring into conscious awareness. | 0 | |
| 7964551781 | Unconscious | This is also called the subconscious, is the level of consciousness that includes often unacceptable feelings, wishes, and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness. | 1 | |
| 7964555090 | Nonconscious | The level of consciousness devoted to process completely inaccessible to conscious awareness, such as blood flow, filtering of blood by kidneys, secretion of hormones, and lower level processing of sensations, such as detecting edges, estimating size and distance of objects, recognizing patterns. | 2 | |
| 7964560069 | Hypnosis | An altered state of consciousness characterized by deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility. Under hypnosis, subjects can change aspects of reality and let those changes influence their behavior. | 3 | |
| 7964563302 | Posthypnotic suggestion | a suggestion made during a hypnotic session to be carried out after subjects is no longer hypnotized; used by some to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors. | 4 | |
| 7964567606 | Posthypnotic amnesia | The inability in hypnotic subjects to recall events that took place while under hypnosis. | 5 | |
| 7964671191 | Dissociation | Any of a wide array of experiences from mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experience. | 6 | |
| 8004479940 | Hidden observer | Protects us from doing anything in hypnosis that we would not do under any circumstance consciously. | 7 | |
| 8004482669 | Social Influence Theory of hypnosis | Powerful social influences such as the social environment, peer pressure, or a hypnotist's status can produce a state of hypnosis. | 8 | |
| 8004491158 | Hilgard's Divided Consciousness | 9 | ||
| 8004494666 | Theory of hypnosis | 10 | ||
| 8004496839 | Biological Rhythms | Periodic physiological fluctuations including annual cycles, 28 day cycle, 90 minute cycle and 24 hour cycle | 11 | |
| 8004496840 | Annual cycles | migration, hibernation and Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D) | 12 | |
| 8004501047 | 28-day cycles | female menstral cycle | 13 | |
| 8004504731 | Circadian rhythm | biological clock; regular body rythms of temperature and wakefullness during 24 hour cycle | 14 | |
| 8004508728 | Melatonin | sleep-inducing hormone produced by pineal gland. | 15 | |
| 8004510505 | Sleep | A complex combination of states of consciousness, each with its own level of consciousness, awareness, responsiveness, and physiological arousal. *The amount of sleep changes and we age. |  | 16 |
| 8004527809 | Beta waves | typically dominate our normal waking states of consciousness and occur when attention is directed towards cognitive and other tasks. *Alpha waves are a type of brain wave that occur when a person is relaxed, but still awake. Alpha waves typically occur when you are falling asleep, as you pass from wakefulness into sleep (from wake into stage 1 sleep). *Delta waves have a frequency from one to four hertz and are measured using an electroencephalogram (EEG). This period of time during which delta waves occur is often known as deep sleep. | 17 | |
| 8082449119 | Alpha waves | The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state. | 18 | |
| 8082461001 | Delta waves | The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep. | 19 | |
| 8082465178 | REM sleep | The lengthening and increasing frequency and depth of rapid eye movement | 20 | |
| 8082466931 | NREM sleep | A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur; decrease in blood pressure, breathing, muscle tension and muscle tension. | 21 | |
| 8082469027 | REM rebound | Increased amounts of REM sleep after being deprived of REM sleep on earlier nights. | 22 | |
| 8082470509 | Insomnia | the feeling of inadequate or poor quality sleep because the person has trouble sleeping. | 23 | |
| 8082470510 | Narcolepsy | a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times. | 24 | |
| 8082473435 | Sleep apnea | A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings. | 25 | |
| 8082756146 | Night terrors | a sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being threatened; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during Stage 4 sleep, within two or three hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered. nightmares, night terrors occur during | 26 | |
| 8082760688 | Dreams | a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer's delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it. | 27 | |
| 8082762396 | Lucid dreams | Awareness that a dream is a dream while it is happening. | 28 | |
| 8082764988 | Manifest content | The remembered story line of a dream as distinct from its latent, or hidden, content. | 29 | |
| 8082766989 | Latent content | The underlying meaning of a dream as distinct from its manifest content. | 30 | |
| 8082768695 | Freud's wish-fulfillment theory | Dreams provide a "psychic safety valve" - expressing otherwise unacceptable feelings; contain manifest (remembered) content and a deeper layer of latent content - a hidden meaning. | 31 | |
| 8082771885 | Information-processing theory | Dreams help us sort out the day's events and consolidate our memories. | 32 | |
| 8082774637 | Physiological theory | An approach witnin psychology that focuses on the impact of human thought, reasoning, intelligence, and memory. | 33 | |
| 8082776365 | Activation-synthesis theory | the theory that dreams result from the brain's attempt to make sense of random of random neural signals that fire during sleep. | 34 | |
| 8082779219 | Cognitive theory | That dreams draw on our knowledge and understanding of the world and engaging those same brain networks that light up when we day dream. | 35 |
